High Energy Batteries What you need for a Super-Battery?

Without lithium ion batteries todays society is not imaginable. Mobile phones, notebooks, tablet PCs, photo cameras or handheld consoles, all these battery powered devices equipment have become essential for our daily lives. Only the high energy density, the proven reliability and the long life of the lithium ion battery (LIB) technology make it possible, to operate portable consumer electronics devices in that manner that we are used to. LIBs are also considered for application in electro mobility and for stationary storage of renewable energy. Here significant advances in R&D as well as in application have been made in the last years, and the expectations for the future of this technology are still growing. Can the LIB or an alternative battery system fulfill these expectations? Will there be a new super battery chemistry? Are there new fields of research in battery chemistry and - technology for tomorrow and where?. These questions will be addressed by two articles on High energy density accumulators.